Wireless LAN Probs

skedmd · 09-17-2003, 07:29 AM

I have installed Suse 9.0 on my laptop and I am having trouble getting my cisco 350 wireless card to work properly. I have installed it and it will associate with the router, but my web browsers don't recognize the connection. How can I find the problem and fix it?

iainr · 09-17-2003, 02:30 PM

Hi skedmd,

There are lots of things that it could be - it would be useful if you can post some more information.

Your network adapter has a name - probably eth0 or eth1.

Can you run the following commands and post the output :

iwconfig eth0 (or whatever your adapter name is)
ifconfig eth0
netstat -i
netstat -r

Thanks,

Iain.

Brian1 · 09-17-2003, 06:14 PM

If you have an internel network connection on the notebook named eth0 and the wireless is eth1 then depending on some configurations you will need to turn off eth0 and bring up eth1. You can have both up at the same time but requires some extra settings. I cannot remember off the top of my head. If I find I will post it here.

ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth1 up

Give this a try.
Brian1

gizmogadgetus · 09-17-2003, 09:30 PM

I'll second Brian1's post. I have an iBlitzz 802.11b cardbus on my laptop(SuSE8.2). I had the onboard lan configured as eth0 and the cardbus as eth1. I had to take down eth0, everytime I wanted to use the wireless card. I ended up disabling eth0 completely.

Have you tried running KWifiManager in KDE and checking inputs/configuration there? It gives a pretty nice configuration editor, as well as a nice graphical representation of signal strength.

skedmd · 09-17-2003, 10:42 PM

Thanks for the responses. I uninstalled (pardon the windows terminology, I'm new) my internal network card before installing the wireless card, so I am pretty sure that is not the problem. Unfortunately I have encountered a new problem. I can no longer associate my card with the router, so I am going to reinstall the utility and drivers and start over. I will re-post when (read: if) I get the client reinstalled and working.